Does the mere mention of the phrase “sampling distributions” bring a tingleto your spine? Visitors to this site will fear this basic concept ofstatistics (along with many others) no longer, as it does a fine job ofexplaining them in a fashion that is both lucid and jargon-free. Created andmaintained by Professor David M. Lane of Rice University, the HyperStatOnline site contains an online introductory statistics textbook, completewith sections on normal distributions, confidence intervals, prediction, andthe logic of hypothesis testing. Each section contains a number of discretesubsections, and users can feel free to browse around at their leisure.Professor Lane has also included a number of external links to relatedresources, including a visual statistics site by David Krus of Arizona StateUniversity and a “Stat Primer”, authored by Bud Gerstman of San Jose StateUniversity. Overall, this site is tremendously helpful, and will be of greatassistance to those entering the world of statistics for the first time.[KMG]